Visiting the Ancestors (an experimental poem)

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Message: Visiting the Ancestors (an experimental poem)
Author: - Tuscus Sempronius, Patron 
Date: Apr 17, 1999 13:53
      Does anyone else write poetry or fiction about the Etruscans?  Here's a 
      short poem I wrote several years ago. 


      Visiting the Ancestors 

      These stones listen. Hill wind 
      blows voices over and down. 
      Name it for yourself, that sound of all names 
      over and down the hill. 

      Green mounds loom here, 
      the grass-thatched tombs of our fathers. 
      After they shadow the bright mounds, 
      hawks out hunting cry, then wheel away. 

      Two measures of wine! 
      One for this toast, then pour the other 
      for the old names, 
      the ones the wind is calling. 









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